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by areoform 1y ago
I am curious to learn more about your perspective! Would it be possible to contact you somehow? (your profile doesn't have an email!)
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by areoform 1y ago
As the other user said, people have been warning about new forms of media since the invention of writing. It has always been in vogue to be a nay sayer. But social media is different. For most forms of media, TV, movies, books, radio etc. Y
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by areoform 1y ago
> Taxes are rising (with tax take falling) > just mentioning increased immigration One of these seems like the solution to the other. > as long as those people leaving are straight, white males, or their families, they're bein
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Total Body Disruption(en.wikipedia.org)
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by areoform 1y ago
> and the quicker disease can spread. People who haven't been on HN for a while tend to think HN keeps getting worse etc. and that's rarely the case, but I do think something has changed in the site's core audi
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by areoform 1y ago
Neighboring countries that trade and are in each other's supply chains + economic zones don't go to war. See: the US' painful and bizarre attempts at butchering its relationship with Canada. The integration of the two economi
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by areoform 1y ago
For the self-described "skeptics," 2 hour travel to anywhere on Earth means that everyone gets to have a donor organ shipped to them within the viability window. If we could go from SF to Tokyo in 2 hours, it would permanently cha
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by areoform 1y ago
Some of us would like to visit other continents. A world that grows ever smaller is one where war becomes ever unthinkable.
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Hanako-San(en.wikipedia.org)
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When Lee Miller Took a Bath in Hitler's Tub(newyorker.com)
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Google offers buyouts to employees across the company, including Search(cnbc.com)
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by areoform 1y ago
In the age of X ditching Twitter and Tweets, I think brand continuity and identity is underrated. The friendly finder logo is such an essential part of MacOS that it's bizarre (at least to me) that they've changed the color symmet
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US authorities are collecting DNA information of children in criminal database(theguardian.com)
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Palace: 3D Finite Element Solver for Computational Electromagnetics(awslabs.github.io)
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MIT physicists discover a new type of superconductor that's also a magnet(news.mit.edu)
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Revisiting the algorithm that changed horse race betting (2023)(actamachina.com)
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Sims, BattleBots, Cellular Automata God and Go (2001)(gamestudies.org)
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Ask HN: Engineering Statics and Dynamics book recommendation
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"No longer able to purchase reagents using NIH grants at Harvard Medical School"(old.reddit.com)
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New computers don't speed up old code [video](youtube.com)
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Harvard's unofficial copy of Magna Carta is an original, experts say(theguardian.com)
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"How did porcelain go from a rare luxury to a commodity?"(old.reddit.com)
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Women in the Age of Polar Exploration(daily.jstor.org)
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by areoform 1y ago
Thank you so much for this detailed dive! I appreciate it! Is there a particular primary source that you recommend?
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by areoform 1y ago
And they shut it down. In 2023. The current tech giants spend a lot of money on "research," where research means optimizing parts of the product line to the 10^nth order of magnitude. Arguably, Google Brain was one such lab. Albei
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by areoform 1y ago
That's absolutely true! But we aren't a multi-billion dollar corporation with a war chest in the billions so sadly this is the best we can do. :(
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by areoform 1y ago
I'm quoting their research summary. By reverse engineering, it means that they figured out why the magnetron worked and then optimized it. They X-Rayed it, found a deviation from plans, then developed a model to understand why there wa
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Why Bell Labs Worked(1517.substack.com)
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British Baseball(en.wikipedia.org)
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What Is an "Author"?-Copyright Authorship of AI Art Through a Philosophical Lens(houstonlawreview.org)
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